Sometimes by Patricia Fargnoli

Sometimes I feel like
the sad gray bird
flying panic-stricken back and forth
just beneath the ceiling,
flying above the aisles full of
soup and pasta, the cases
of beef and chicken,
the stacks of tomatoes and
grapes, bananas and lemons,
of Shaw’s grocery store
in Walpole New Hampshire
on a cold April Tuesday
at ten a.m. in 2018
trying to find any opening,
trying to find sky.



Patricia Fargnoli has published 5 books of poetry. Her latest book is Hallowed: New & Selected Poems, Tupelo Press, 2017. A former NH Poet Laureate and a MacDowell Fellow, she’s published widely in journals such as Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Alaska Quarterly et. al.